GOLDEN Boy Promotions vice president and international matchmaker Eric Gomez said he is hoping that the lawsuits involving Golden Boy and Top Rank over the promotional rights to Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao are resolved quickly.
In an overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Standard Today, Gomez said: “The last thing we want to do is to hurt anybody or any of the fighters because they are the ones who get hurt. We don’t want to cause any problems.”
The statements of Gomez contradicted claims made by Top Rank’s Bob Arum that Golden Boy wanted to see a drawn-out legal battle.
Gomez made it clear that the case was in their lawyers’ hands and he couldn’t really say how soon it would be resolved. But he stressed that for Pacquiao’s sake and the sake of everybody else, it gets resolved quickly although he conceded that “these things can get backed up some times.”
He said that with the lawsuits and the World Boxing Council sanctioning of the super featherweight title fight between Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao is the one that’s “really going to suffer because of the situation and it’s really, really unfortunate for him.”
Gomez noted that there were no quality names in the list given to Pacquiao by Arum from which he was to choose his opponent for a planned April 28 fight in Macau.
